The now fully official Author’s Hangout Halloween 2025 competition support thread

[DEFCOM5]

I was going for an, “Aw! We’ve got a puppy,” vibe.

You nailed it!

 

[Xochisme]

I hope mine gets approved in time it ended up being 26k words and I JUST SUBMITTED IT LAST NIGHT. My title ended up being to long so I had to shorten it from The Infernal Perdition of Miriam Persignar to just The Infernal Perdition of Miriam. Do we get a notification or something or is there a thread where the stories get posted to? I don't think I asked about that part.

 

[EmilyMiller]

I hope mine gets approved in time it ended up being 26k words and I JUST SUBMITTED IT LAST NIGHT. My title ended up being to long so I had to shorten it from The Infernal Perdition of Miriam Persignar to just The Infernal Perdition of Miriam. Do we get a notification or something or is there a thread where the stories get posted to? I don't think I asked about that part.

You should - absent the current problems - get a notification that it has been published. And it should then also appear on:

https://www.literotica.com/stories/contest.php/halloween-2025

 

[Xochisme]

You should - absent the current problems - get a notification that it has been published. And it should then also appear on:

https://www.literotica.com/stories/contest.php/halloween-2025

Oh wow that’s a lot of submissions! I should try to get it in sooner for the next contest

 

[Trionyx]

Because of all the delays, I decided to publish sooner than I planned. I'm sure there are some glitches and errors, but I'd rather live with them than lose out on the competition altogether, not that I have a shred of hope of winning.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Oh wow that’s a lot of submissions! I should try to get it in sooner for the next contest

It’s getting crazier with each comp…

The benefits of extra views are commensurately attenuated, sadly.

 

[Xochisme]

It’s getting crazier with each comp…

The benefits of extra views are commensurately attenuated, sadly.

My vocabulary isn’t that advanced lol. Are you saying that with every submission there’s less views? Or with more submissions there’s less views to go around?

Also, is there like a *select panel* voting? Or does everyone vote? or how does that work?

 

[SamanthaBehgs]

I've been feeling unwell so I've been mostly off the forums but I must say - this thread I check every day for the awesome pictures that go with the contest. Thanks @EmilyMiller

 

[EmilyMiller]

with more submissions there’s less views to go around?

 

[EmilyMiller]

Also, is there like a *select panel* voting? Or does everyone vote? or how does that work?

Nope, it’s just readers (and other authors) voting as for any story.

 

[EmilyMiller]

I've been feeling unwell so I've been mostly off the forums but I must say - this thread I check every day for the awesome pictures that go with the contest. Thanks @EmilyMiller

Thank you

And hope you feel better soon (which autocorrect tried to make into whore you feel better soon )

 

[SamanthaBehgs]

Thank you

And hope you feel better soon (which autocorrect tried to make into whore you feel better soon )

Guess autocorrect thought it should be a command instead of just a wish, lol

 

[MelissaBaby]

Damn, this contest seems awfully one bomby this year.

 

[SamanthaBehgs]

Damn, this contest seems awfully one bomby this year.

One bomby?

 

[Xochisme]

One bomby?

Not sure, but I think it means that people are getting review bombed.

 

[old_prof]

Damn, this contest seems awfully one bomby this year.

How many have you gotten? I don't know I quite hit double digits in the Nude Day, but it was around 10 of them. I stopped watching as carefully after 7 of them (4 one evening)

One bomby?

Lots of people voting 1 on stories out of spite or trying to throw the contest or something.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Damn, this contest seems awfully one bomby this year.

It’s crazy, right? Like all the orcs were emptied out of Mordor in one go. Or… one very obsessed and kinda unwell person.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Lots of people voting 1 on stories out of spite or trying to throw the contest or something.

Or just as they can with utter impunity under the current ‘system.’

 

[SamanthaBehgs]

Not sure, but I think it means that people are getting review bombed.

Oh yikes. Well, they can bomb me all they want I guess. Still having fun writing this bad boy.

 

[SamanthaBehgs]

Welp, there went nothing. Figured out some tags to include and sent in my erotic recreation of The Raven (with far fewer dead wives and far more magical shopkeepers)

 

[Voboy]

Or just as they can with utter impunity under the current ‘system.’

I'mma need a healthy sweep just to reach a red H!

 

[ChloeTzang]

Oh wow that’s a lot of submissions! I should try to get it in sooner for the next contest

Holy gucamole. that list has grown!!!!!!!

 

[EmilyMiller]

I'mma need a healthy sweep just to reach a red H!

I feel your pain.

And if a writer as good as you is being downvoted, what chance have us regular folk got?

 

[Djmac1031]

Damn, this contest seems awfully one bomby this year.

yeah my entry was riding pretty high for awhile then all of a sudden...

 

[Voboy]

I feel your pain.

And if a writer as good as you is being downvoted, what chance have us regular folk got?

Evidence suggests it might not be as good a story as I thought, but

There's only so much one can do. It's a good contest anyway; the stories I've read have been on a par with anything from past contests.